Qualities
Synonyms for flinty
The synonym for flinty recorded in this bank is stony, in the sense "showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for flinty
- stonyadjective, in the sense "showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for flinty.
showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
His flinty gaze.
The true synonym
stony
Same sentence, swapped: His stony gaze.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- unrelenting
- steadfast
- unaffected
Where flinty turns up in the game
flinty is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where flinty is the trap
- unflappableadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is imperturbable, in the sense "not easily perturbed or excited or upset", and flinty is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play flinty
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flinty reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
flinty is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.